Farming
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Drones are starting to emerge as highly suitable tools for farming. This is of course not lost on the world's biggest drone maker DJI, who has just a launched a machine for farmers that can be programmed to cover acres of farmland in pesticides every hour.

Czech tractor company Zetor has hit the Agritechnica fair in Hannover with a pimpin' concept that looks more Concorso D'Eleganza than field d'asparaguza, thanks to the help of Italian design house Pininfarina.

Forward Thinking Architecture's triple-decker Smart Floating Farms would feature 2.2 million square feet (2.04 sq km) of fish farm, hydroponic garden, and rooftop solar panels to power a floating barge, which could be anchored to the beds of oceans, lakes or rivers.

Vertical farms present an efficient, cost-effective and sustainable means of producing food in the face of growing urban populations worldwide. A see-through, mobile vertical farm project called Isabel is aiming to take this message on the road.

AeroFarms' new 69,000 sq ft (6,410 sq m) facility in Newark, New Jersey, will be based in a converted steel factory and will incorporate a new corporate HQ for the firm. It's expected to grow high-quality and healthy produce all year round.

Philips has opened a new facility for developing LED "light recipes" for indoor farming. The GrowWise City Farming research center will be used to study how light can maximize the quality and yield of different crops. The aim is to help producers grow tasty and healthy food indoors all year round.

Underwater gardeners off the tourist beach of Noli, Italy are growing basil crops underwater over a span of 50 days. It's part of an effort to develop an energy-efficient farming technique that could be used to grow food where this wasn't previously possible.

The "world’s first underground urban farm" is set to start selling herbs and salads grown 33 m (108 ft) below the streets of London. Growing Underground is based in disused World War II tunnels. At less than two miles from the city-center, it promises farm-to-fork produce in less than four hours.

With a freshly-inked US$100,000 cheque tucked under its arm courtesy of MIT, startup RaptorMaps plans to get crop-mapping drones into the air to better track their health and give farmers' harvests a boost.

In hot, dry areas of the world, collecting enough rainwater to grow crops can be difficult. Another potential source of water for collection, however, can be dew. Roots Up has designed a greenhouse to collect dew in Gondar, Ethiopia, as part of a scheme to help local farmers with low-tech solutions.